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With teachers and students returning to the classroom, the hosts of Critics at Large reflect on the art of education itself.

Marlon James, Louise Erdrich, Edwidge Danticat, and more.

See today’s Daily Cartoon.

Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., eats beef every day, but more Americans, faced with rising prices and another climate warning, might want something else for dinner.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

China’s fears about A.I. are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation?

Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms.

Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism.

See today’s Daily Cartoon.

The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem.

The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end.

The British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced to life in prison for murdering babies on her ward. Rachel Aviv writes about the recently published findings of a three-year inquiry into the deaths—and the central question that it ignores.

As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward.